Teaching girlfriends about IM; a HIT or a MISS; more about it, inside

You can maybe put your significant other to work doing some simple side tasks for you to help out, I know some people that do this, but to be honest, I've told my husband all my secrets of IM and while he's impressed at the money and stuff, I might as well be speaking pig latin to him. I've spoon fed him and put him to work, he's made money too and hates it, he HATES doing this shit, if he could make 1k a minute clicking a red dot over and over I am not sure he would keep it up long enough to make fifty dollars. I've also had various family members hit me up greedily and wide eyed wanting to know how to make internet money and you can see the expression on their face fade once you get like 2 minutes into it, they want it to be push-button easy and once they see effort is involved it's like they completely lose interest.

In short, i'd say yeah, if you have someone you care about, let em in a little, gauge their interest. If you're lucky you might end up with an awesome work partner, but don't count on it. IM is work.

I still have yet to learn what IM is yet myself... haha #newb

I am in the process of getting a male friend on board with Blackhat methods as he's jobless and will one day ask my boyfriend to join in whenever he has more time. So I'm the opposite!

I do however have female friends ( 1 in particular ) who don't understand ANYTHING. One friend doesnt understand the plot of most films and gives up half way through so I can definitely see where some of you think its pointless. Another however is very similar to me and already knows some valuable things about IM and we've had great discussions about marketing a future business of hers.

So every now and then a rare breed of female WILL evolve and be capable. We aren't all into kittens and knitting.

Most women will pick up some tricks if you teach us. But the problem is the person has to be interested in what they're doing or it will never stick. And if your girl isn't prepared to sit at the PC for hours / days / weeks to make her first $1 then forget it.

I'd like to teach my gf IM too. It would be really cool. =)

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You must keep these two worlds apart! In the Constitution there is a clause about the Separation of Girlfriend and Work.

And if you really need to pimp out your GF to the IM world, you should be working harder yourself.

I've been going through this the last 18 months with my GF.

She only really knows and understands IM now.... I've figured over time that certain parts of IM is not her thing. She love graphics, yet she gets frustrated with photoshop etc very very easily so I just do that sorta thing...

She has an interest in coding, and does well at it, but she gets sidetracked alot and I have to keep at her to keep learning it (I want to her have some skills).

I found now though that she loves Social Media, viral marketing and talking to people... so now she handles ALL that kinda of stuff, and I just do the SEO and other stuff she has no interest in. As she's gotten more into Social Media she keeps getting better and better and would put alot of marketers here to complete shame, I'm very proud of her.

To get back to the point, steer her in a direction that she enjoys and has an interest in and nature will take its course. No point teaching her about SEO if you see her constantly falling asleep and paying no attention. Find out what she likes and take it from there.

It works for me. My GF does all the customer service, reports, basic design work. While I take care of the macro tasks and technical stuff. But I do a lot of service related stuff where I have to deal with clients and she's great at that part.

EyeSight said:

not interested teaching her ... she will be my rival in my niches

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Excellent comment, couldn't agree more. Instead of creating more competition and letting your business secrets out (what happens if you break up and let's face it, since we're talking numbers games all the time on this forum, it's more likely than not) you might want to consider teaching her other things: might be very good for the relationship as well if you nail the right things..

Frack no thank you. I love jving with other IM'ers whom I respect. I am not interested in teaching anyone who isn't already interested, a bit experienced, and willing to work. It's much easier to do it all alone and keep 100% than it is to teach others and share after hand holding. I'm sorry, a bit rude, but true in my experience.

I prefer to not even discuss what I do with potential victims, I mean, dates.

"What do you do for a living?"
"Oh, I work online...damn this breeze feels good! Want to go get some coffee?"

Dont poop where you eat...

I can't think of a woman other than my mom and maybe a couple females who hired me in past jobs that helped me get money. They never taught me how to make money online. I still don't get the guys who bring their wives in to their web dev businesses and give them the title of VP of Business Development. When she divorces the guy, there goes his business, his methods, his clients and his money.

marusia said:

Frack no thank you. I love jving with other IM'ers whom I respect. I am not interested in teaching anyone who isn't already interested, a bit experienced, and willing to work. It's much easier to do it all alone and keep 100% than it is to teach others and share after hand holding.

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I learned this the hard way. Tried hiring friends to do work and they just didn't get it and it was like pulling teeth just to get the simplest shit done. In the end it just wasn't worth it. Better off spending the extra time doing it all yourself or hiring someone who is already in the field.

I wanna get my sister on here. She seems to think PTC is good money. I think it's a waste of energy/time/electricity/anything else I can't think of.

your wasting your time trying to teach your girlfriend.. well.. they are good at facebook and twitter though.